The Academic Assembly Council is composed of six standing committees and six representative committees. Click on the title of the committee to learn more about it and how you can get involved.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Aliasghar Montazar, President

 VACANT, Past President

Chris Greer, President-Elect

Phoebe Gordon, Secretary

VACANT, Specialist Chair

Jhalendra Rijal, Advisor Chair

Tunyalee Martin and Kim Ingram, Academic Coordinator Co-Chairs

PERSONNEL COMMITTEE

Michelle Leinfelder-Miles | Chair | Delta Crops Resource Management Advisor | San Joaquin/Contra Costa/Sacramento/Solano/Yolo

Brenna Aegerter | Past-Chair | Vegetable Crops Advisor San Joaquin County

Etaferahu Takele | Farm Management & Agricultural Economics Advisor | Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, and Imperial Counties

Mark Bolda | Strawberry and Caneberry Advisor | Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito Counties

Karey Windbiel-Rojas | Associate Director for Urban and Community IPM & Urban and Community IPM Advisor | Yolo, Sacramento, and Solano Counties

Carolyn Rider | Nutrition Program Evaluator Academic Coordinator 

Oli Bachie | Agronomy & Weed Management Advisor | San Diego and Imperial Counties

Aparna Gazula | Small Farms and Specialty Crops Advisor | Santa Clara, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties

Max Moritz | Fire Ecology & Management Specialist

Aliasghar Montazar, AAC ex-officio | Irrigation and Water Management Advisor, Imperial and San Diego Counties

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Daniela Bruno Chair| Dairy Advisor | Fresno, Madera Counties

Susie Kocher, Past Chair| Forestry & Natural Resources Advisor | Central Sierra/El Dorado

Safeeq Khan | Water and Watershed Sciences Specialist | UC Merced

Keith Nathaniel | 4-H Youth Development Advisor/County Director | Los Angeles

Nicole Marshall-Wheeler | 4-H Youth Development Advisor | Colusa County

Giuliano Galdi | Weed Management Advisor | Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin Counties

RULES & ELECTIONS COMMITTEE

Whitney Brim-DeForest, Co-Chair | Rice Advisor/County Director | Sutter/Yuba

Julie Finzel , Co-Chair| Rangeland Advisor | Kern

Hung Doan | Small Farms and Specialty Crops Advisor | San Bernardino/Riverside Counties

Zhang Wang | Vegetable Crops Advisor | San Joaquin/Stanislaus Counties

Tobias Ebong Oker | Irrigation and Soils Management Advisor | Kern County

WELFARE & BENEFITS COMMITTEE

Ben Faber, Chair| Advisor | Ventura/Santa Barbara

Whitney Brim-DeForest | County Director, Sutter and Yuba Counties and CE Rice and Wild Rice Advisor

Amanda Linares | Nutrition Policy Institute

VACANT

VACANT

ACADEMIC COORDINATOR REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE

Tunyalee Martin, Co-Chair | Integrated Pest Management Communications

Kim Ingram, Co-Chair | El Dorado County

Andy Lyons, Pre President Elect | Informatics/GIS

Janice Kao, Nutrition Policy Institute

Shannon Klisch, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties

Matt Baur, Western IPM Center

Marianna Castiaux , Small Farms, Fresno County

ADVISOR REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE

Jhalendra Rijal, Chair | Integrated Pest Management | Stanislaus/San Joaquin/Merced

Devii Rao Past Chair | Area Livestock & Natural Resources Advisor | San Benito/Monterey/Santa Cruz

Natalie Price | Livestock & Natural Resources Advisor/County Director | Mariposa/Merced

Ryan Tompkins | Forestry & Natural Resources | Plumas/Sierra/Lassen

Mohammad Yaghmour | Orchard Systems | Kern/Kings

Nick Clark | Agronomy and Nutrient Management | Fresno/Kings/Tulare

Luke Milliron | Orchard Systems | Butte/Glenn/Tehema

MULTIPLE ACADEMIC TITLES REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE

Annemiek Schilder, Chair | Director | Hansen REC

Peter Larbi | CE Specialist | Kearney REC

Max Moritz | CE Specialist | UC Santa Barbara

Lorrene Ritchie | CE Specialist and Director of the Nutrition Policy Institute

Francisco Benitez | Project Scientist | Kearney REC

Jackie Atim | CE Specialist | Kearney REC

VACANT

UC BERKELEY SPECIALIST REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE

Susana Matias, AAC Representative | Specialist | UC Berkeley

UC DAVIS SPECIALIST REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE

Linda Harris and Alireza Pourezza | AAC Representatives | Specialist | UC Davis

UC RIVERSIDE SPECIALIST REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE

Ashraf El-Kereamy, AAC Representative | Specialist | UC Riverside